On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

So, I do not accept that it cannot be possible that, w/i the TU, it will still be possible to lose ships w/o a trace..

If ships can NOT be lost without a trace within the TU, then how do we explain all those accidental colonies which started out as the survivors of crash-landed ships?

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